Word: viewpoints
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...losing his roots in nature and primal passions. He's pushed those themes to their furthest extremes before. Peckinpah here, for the first time, is able to treat all his characters without romanticization, with respectful distance, not close-up passion. He has come to a more nature viewpoint. What he decries is a country that can't prepare its men for the world they grow up in, stunting in youth the lives of those men and the face of the land they desecrate and the structures they build. He shows us what those who accept such a society deserve...
...Obligated from both a moral and political viewpoint," as he put it, Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon last week publicly admitted that Israeli planes had dropped bombs on the southern Lebanon town of Hasbaya two weeks ago. The raid, labeled a "preventive" strike, had been aimed at the Palestinian fedayeen encamped in the hills around the village. But because of a technical failure in a jet bomber, said Allon, a number of bombs were dropped on Hasbaya itself. "We never intended to harm peaceful civilians," he said...
...personality by his friend, Director Claude Lelouch, and filmed without a script in four weeks. Offers began pouring in, but Trintignant had had enough of romantic parts. "Love scenes embarrass me," he says. "I'm not an exhibitionist." He now prefers political films that share his left-wing viewpoint (the most recent: The Assassination, based on the Ben Barka affair in France) and bad-guy roles "to counteract my own good nature." Costa-Gavras calls him "the only star who'll make films he likes even if those films can ruin his career...
...with respect in the power centers of Europe, where English is now the second language. Nineteen copies a day go to Peking, and the Kremlin also subscribes. Editor Murray "Buddy" Weiss, 48, who was the last managing editor of the New York Herald Tribune, talks of a "mid-Atlantic viewpoint" that implies a degree of detachment from both the U.S. and Europe...
...columns have been particularly tough. Salisbury, who has long experience covering both European and Asian Communist countries, in 1966 became the first journalist from a major U.S. publication to visit North Viet Nam in a dozen years. His series of stories was distinctly sympathetic. From Pyongyang's viewpoint, Salisbury's visit promises not only sympathy but also reciprocity that may give North Korean newsmen access to Washington...